I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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